Andy Warhol is best known for his importance in the world of
pop art where he began by experimenting with paintings of Campbell’s soup tins
and coca cola bottles. Before this he worked as a commercial artist for
magazines and also designed advertisements.
Warhol applied monoprint to many of his earlier pieces of
art; these were mainly for his commercial works which made him very successful as
an illustrator. Around 1960 Warhol decided to change his style and began to use
paint and a canvas rather than monoprints and blotted line drawings. After
creating a series of paintings and selling them he realised that he wouldn’t be
able to create the images fast enough and so decided to try out silk screen
printing which would allow him to use a stencil to recreate many versions of
images.
I find Andy Warhol’s style very
interesting and although the images may seem simple, there is actually quite a
lot of depth to them. This simplistic style is what makes it pop art, but Warhol
still manages to incorporate detail into his pieces which makes them more
interesting and clever.
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